The Communications Workers of America (CWA) has asked the FCC to reject efforts by West Virginia legislators to block Frontier Communications’ successful bid for Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) funding. Frontier won $247 million to serve almost 79,000 locations in…
The Communications Workers of America is spreading the word about FirstNet. The union is launching FirstResponderVoice.org to promote the nationwide mobile broadband first responder network that AT&T is building in collaboration with the federal government. The CWA FirstNet website offers…
The Communications Workers of America (CWA) union wants T-Mobile and Sprint to make a binding commitment not to eliminate jobs in their proposed merger. According to a CWA analysis, as many as 30,000 U.S. jobs could be lost as a…
AT&T contracts with AT&T Midwest and AT&T Legacy workers expired over the weekend and the Communications Workers of America union, which represents the workers, said workers are prepared for an AT&T strike if progress at the bargaining table is not…
March 26, 2018 — CHARLESTON, W. Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Frontier Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: FTR) today announced it has reached a new tentative labor agreement with CWA 142. The previous CWA contract expired on March 3, 2018. The tentative agreement will now be submitted…
A complaint filed with the Pennsylvania public utilities commission has driven a Verizon-CWA copper settlement involving maintenance of the company’s traditional landline network infrastructure. Verizon union workers represented by the CWA argued that the company was in violation of statutory…
Perhaps unsurprisingly the Communications Workers of America union would like to see the FCC raise the target speed for the Connect America Fund to 10 Mbps from its current 4 Mbps – a move the commission has been considering for…
US labor is weighing in on the concentration of spectrum within the telecom industry. The Communications Workers of America (CWA) is calling on the FCC to impose specific conditions on Verizon Wireless as a condition of the carrier’s plan to…
Looks like AT&T has avoided a strike in its mobility unit. They’ve reached a tentative deal with the Communications Workers of America (CWA), covering over 20,000 AT&T mobility workers. According to the CWA, the proposed settlement “…provides for a compounded…
NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association’s Smart Communities program and the National Rural Education Association (NREA) are attempting to promote awareness among K-12 students of possible careers in broadband. To that end, the two groups partnered on a BOLD toolkit unveiled this…
Although some people like to talk about a digital media revolution, a new media usage report from YouGov suggests that it’s more of an evolution. Researchers studied 12 categories of media activities, including digital activities requiring internet connectivity and traditional…